Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
University of Chicago

"Central Banking in the Current Era"

Moderator: Professor Steven J. Davis
William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago
Exco Member & Senior Fellow, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER)

Speaker

Professor Raghuram G. Rajan

Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service
Professor of Finance
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak
Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of
Business at the University of Chicago. He was the Governor of the Reserve
Bank of India between 2013 and 2016, and also served as Vice-Chairman of the
Board of the Bank for International Settlements between 2015 and
2016.Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and
Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to
2006.

Dr. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and
economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. He
co-authored Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Luigi Zingales in
2003. He then wrote Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the
World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs
prize for best business book in 2010.

Dr. Rajan was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and
is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Group of
Thirty. In 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the
inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age
of 40. The other awards he has received include the Deutsche Bank Prize for
Financial Economics in 2013, Euromoney magazine’s Central Banker of the Year
Award 2014 and The Banker magazine's Global Central Banker of the Year award
in 2016.

Professor Steven J. Davis

William H. Abbott Professor of International
Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Exco Member & Senior Fellow, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic
Research (ABFER)

Steven J. Davis is the William H. Abbott
Professor of International Business and Economics at the University of
Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies business dynamics, labor
markets, economic fluctuations, and public policy.He is past editor of the American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics, elected fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, senior
academic fellow with the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research,
research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, advisor to
the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, and consultant to the Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta.

Davis is known for his influential work using longitudinal data on firms and
establishments to explore job creation and destruction dynamics and their
relationship to economic performance. He is a co-creator of the Economic
Policy Uncertainty Indices at www.PolicyUncertainty.com and the DHI Hiring Indicators
at http://dhihiringindicators.com. He co-organizes the Asian
Monetary Policy Forum, held annually in Singapore. In 2013, he received the
Addington Prize in Measurement for his research on “Measuring Economic
Policy Uncertainty.”

His teaching experience includes Ph.D. courses in macroeconomics and labor
economics at the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and the University of Maryland; MBA courses in macroeconomics,
money and banking, business strategy, and financial institutions for Chicago
Booth; and executive MBA courses in macroeconomics for Chicago Booth in
Barcelona, London, and Singapore. Davis has also taught undergraduate
courses in microeconomics, econometrics, and money and banking at Brown
University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In addition to his scholarly work, Davis has written for the Atlantic,
Bloomberg View, Financial Times, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall
Street Journal and appeared on Bloomberg TV, Channel News Asia, CNBC, CNN,
Fox News, NBC Network News and the U.S. Public Broadcasting
System.

Professor Tan Chorh Chuan

President, National University of
Singapore
Chairman, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research
(ABFER)

Tan Chorh Chuan was appointed President of
the National University of Singapore in December 2008. He concurrently
serves as the Chairman of the Board of the National University Health
System. Prof Tan's additional appointments include Deputy Chairman of
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR); Senior
Advisor to the Governing Board of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School; Member,
Board of Directors of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; and Member, Board
of Directors of Mandai Park Holdings Pte Ltd.

A renal physician, he obtained his medical
training at NUS, and research training at the Institute of Molecular
Medicine, Oxford. He was Dean of the NUS Faculty of Medicine from 1997 to
2000. He served as the Director of Medical Services, Ministry of Health,
from 2000 to 2004, in which capacity he was responsible for leading the
public health response to the 2003 SARS epidemic. He held the positions of
NUS Provost, then Senior Deputy President from 2004 to 2008. He also played
a key role in setting up the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, in his
capacity as Deputy Chairman of the Governing Board from 2004 to 2007. As the
inaugural Chief Executive of the National University Health System in 2008,
he brought the NUS Medical and Dental Schools and the National University
Hospital under single governance.

Prof Tan is a key leader in Singapore's Biomedical Sciences Initiative since
its inception in 2000, for which he was awarded the National Science and
Technology Medal in 2008. He also received the Public Service Star in 2003
for outstanding contributions to overcoming SARS in Singapore; the Public
Administration Gold Medal in 2004 for his work as Director of Medical
Services in the Ministry of Health; and the Meritorious Service Medal in
2015. Other awards include the 2015 Asia-Pacific Leadership Award from the
Council for Advancement and Support of Education; the Dr John Yu Medal from
the George Institute for Global Health, Australia; the Albert Schweitzer
Gold Medal from the Polish Academy of Medicine; Honorary Doctor of Medicine
from King's College; Honorary Doctor of Science from Duke University;
Honorary Doctor of Science from Loughborough University; Achievement Medal
from the Singapore Society of Nephrology and the 1996 Singapore Youth
Award.

Prof Tan, who has been a member of the World Economic Forum's Global
University Leaders Forum (GULF) since 2008, was appointed Chair of GULF in
2014 for a two-year term. He was the Chairperson of the International
Alliance of Research Universities, a consortium of 10 leading
research-intensive universities from 2008 – 2012, and is currently on the
Steering Committee of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.

Prof Tan was previously a Commonwealth Medical Fellow, Wellcome Fellow,
University of Oxford, and a Visiting Scholar to Wolfson College, Oxford. He
is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College
of Physicians of London, the American College of Physicians, elected Fellow
of the Polish Academy of Medicine and Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society, UK. Prof Tan is also the first Singaporean to be elected as an
international member of the US National Academy of Medicine.